A collection of thirty-three award-winning short stories and a novella, each about one-of-a kind characters solving serious problems in challenging settings. The stories are crafted by William H. Coles with artistic intensity for engagement and entertainment. Each short story is illustrated by one of six artists commissioned for the story.

Helen Haught Fanick is a native of Appalachia, and the area is a favorie setting for her short stories and novels. It's easy to discern her love of the people of the region in reading Spring Decision. The resiliance, courage, ingenuity, and heart exhibited by the characters in Stories of Appalachia echo the traits exhibited by friends, neighbors, and relatives of the author.

A compelling, moving, life-or-death story about thee survival of American democracy and Christian morality. A Paper Pauper on the Whistle Perch is a heart-rending sensitive, moving story of fear and danger, pain and struggle, futility and immorality in American democracy, which, like all other democracies throughout history, is destroying itself.

Marvelous. Honest. Generous. From the first story to the last, "By the Wayside" catches your attention and demands that you give into its every whirl. Each character unfolds with a precision that will have you wondering how Parrish managed to create such real-to-the-bones people within a world that captivates you with ease.

A man decides to transform himself into a bird to escape his phone-wielding, formaldehyde-scented girlfriend. A professional clipboarder spends her days enduring the humiliation cast upon her by potential donors and her nights conjuring visions of the Appalachian Trail. A streaming video epiphany jumpstarts a drug-addled outcast’s plan to become the person she’s always wanted to be.

52 Humorous And Inspirational Short Stories
From the inspiration of a World War II soldier’s compassion in Forgiveness to the humor of numerous car problems in Crossed Wires these 52 humorous and inspirational short stories (one for each week of the year) will make you laugh, reminisce, and contemplate the relationships you cherish most.

Roll the dice, pick a card, tell a lie, hide the truth. Whatever the move, it's all just part of the game. Follow the lives of four very different characters who are all trapped in an insidious game. Each story delves into the intricate web of misaligned motives and obscured half-truths.

Strange dim light, shifts in time, in perspective. Can we experience past lives? How do we survive the inexorably slow loss of love? Why do epiphanies slip up on us? What quirks of the universe drive us to the thoughts and deeds that ultimately define our lives? Campbell’s lyrical short stories explore pivotal moments, realizations, and inevitable conclusions in lives of unexpected dimension.

A yearning for connection binds many of the stories in Jeff Boyle’s fine collection. In a world where people find themselves increasingly isolated from neighbors and their communities, Boyle shows us again and again characters swimming against that tide to reach some kind of bond with another.

In Sure Things & Last Chances, Lou Gaglia's characters tip love rivals into lakes, try private eye work, and go to war with ants. They are dangled over decks and kicked by horses. They revisit their younger selves and ponder love and death and beauty. In between, a straw man joins the fire department, a petulant editor rejects classics, and a man is lost in the woods, despite his great height.

Over sixty thousand words of original fiction from USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.
In this thirty-first monthly volume the full novel and introduction of a brand-new series, Death Takes a Partner: A Mary Jo Assassin Novel, plus five short stories and a serialized novel, Laying the Music to Rest.

John Culpepper did everything in his power to protect his family and honor the crown during a rebellion in Virginia, but John was unaware that his own son was planning a rebellion in Carolina. When the boy was arrested and charged with treason, John's legal training, which he rebelled against in his youth, became the only thing standing between his son's life and death.